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leach - use in sentences
Object
- calcium: Animal protein is high in sulfur which can leach calcium from the bones and form painful kidney stones.
- nutrient: Deep rooted crops bring leached nutrients up to the surface soil where they become available to the next generation crop.
- soil: In areas of very high rainfall such as the High Fells of the Lake District these heavily leached soils are known as rankers.
- chemical: It does not leach any chemicals into the soil or water.
- loss: Future studies are planned to measure or estimate leaching losses.
- behavior: Standard leaching tests are largely not capable of evaluating the long term leaching behavior of AFBC residues at disposal sites.
Preposition: through
- soil: BERTIE will have just enough nitrogen to grow to maturity and leave no excess that might later leach through the soil.
Preposition: into
- groundwater: The latter also had greater environmental impacts - 60 % more nitrate leached into groundwater over a 5-year period than in the organic systems.
- soil: It is harmful to people and animals and leaches into soil.
- water: Metal ores The presence of metal ores in areas where waters are acidic can cause toxicity problems as the metals leach into the water.
Modifies a noun
- process: All the known deposits in the county were visited, sampled and tested for their reaction to our heap leach process.
Modifying Another Word
- away: If added in the autumn a lot of the " goodness " is leached away over the winter, particularly the nitrogen.
- easily: Most garden soils contain plenty of nutrients, apart from nitrogen which is easily leached out of the soil.
- not: Despite popular myth these pigments do not leach out of the birds ' plumage in heavy rain!
- also: This will have also leached down through the tumbled masonry to form at the base of the deposits.
- readily: In contrast, the protein is more readily leached through soil with lower clay concentrations, indicating that it could contaminate groundwater.
Noun used with modifier
- heap: All the known deposits in the county were visited, sampled and tested for their reaction to our heap leach process.
Preposition: of
- nitrate: The highest N gifts resulted in a yield reduction ( leaching of nitrate ).
- nutrient: Succession on dunes is mainly the result of the buildup of soil humus under increasingly sheltered conditions, combined with leaching of nutrients.
Preposition: from
- soil: The excess nitrogen leaches from the soil into underground reservoirs - the source of much of our water supply.
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